The two Ronnies on new ground
Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett will be back with another mixture of comedy sketches, solo performances, music and dancing, on South Pacific Television tomorrow. The two Ronnies have been watching television with an eye to getting into major drama series. The result is some new episodes, not quite in the tradition of the original stories.
For example, there is a new character in “Colditz” — a glamorous and amorous matron.
The shows also feature more glamour in the shape of the dancers, Pan’s People, and each week there are regular musical guests. The sketches on Saturday will include “Public
Library” when there is a nasty scene as it becomes all too evident that various books on good behaviour have had no affect whatsoever; “Driving Test” which features an examiner who goes into the fray complete with parachute and blood plasma; “How To Care For the Sick” with some extraordinarily useless hints and examples; and “Colditz” another story in this continuing escape saga, with Ronnie Corbett in the David McCallum role and Ronnie Barker in most of the others. Guests on “The Two Ronnies” will include the Irish singer Dana, Pan’s People, and Claire Nielson, April Walker, Joyce Windsor, Nicholas Courtney, Jay McGrath, John Rutland and Peter Symonds.
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